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Newspaper
Ismay
Location
Ismay, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1908
Page
3
Government experts discuss the economic impact of pocket gophers across western states with damages ranging up to a dollar per acre in some areas. The article explains gopher behavior, natural enemies, and control methods including trapping, poisoning with care to avoid livestock, shooting, and encouraging barn owls and weasels to curb populations.
Evergreens offer wind protection and visual beauty, especially when snow laden branches add charm. They thrive on sandy soils, support bird life, and work as screens or wind breaks, with hedges and formal screens best kept pruned and lighted from the base.
An old poultryman advises starting small with 3 or 4 hens rather than leasing 3,000 or 4,000. He argues gradual growth teaches essential lessons and avoids overreaching, noting many practical lessons are learned only after beginning with a modest flock.
A warning stresses destroying or properly storing Paris Green and similar poisons to prevent rainwater collection and cattle drinking the substance. It also advises a lice bath setup with four boxes of dust to treat birds, especially setting hens, as eggs hatch.
Fragmentary note discusses a poultry yard cure named Cureé-All and its claimed preventive virtue. It claims the product negates need for stimulants and regulators, noting its principal virtue and improvised fittings.
The article notes hens should keep themselves free from vermin with a dust bath and minimal external help. It emphasizes providing a dust bath for poultry to assist in pest control and general hen health.
Fragmented text shows garbled dialogue with quotes about goodness and razors, a suffragette leader speaking, and scattered phrases about a wife, pencils, sugar, and pacing. The readable content is nonsensical, with no clear events, names, or locations to anchor a coherent summary.
Readers report silos as vital for dairy cows and sheep, noting ease of use and improved milk production. Experts from the Bureau of Animal Industry describe stave silo construction with frost line foundations and reinforced walls for durable silos.
The article urges farmers to raise colts from mares, arguing it requires little extra time and can fit around foaling. Draft or coach stallions are ideal sires for farmers, while trotters and saddles need more care before sale. It also notes rats in corn cribs despite precautions and suggests using a cat to deter mice.
A quirky dialogue unfolds as a trapped mouse questions a cat about mechanics. The rodent dismisses knowledge bluntly, claiming to have lived among bankers and similar people, highlighting an ironic mismatch between its audience and expertise.
The readable lines hint at congratulations and refer to a season, Nike and other unclear terms. The fragmentary OCR lacks clear events, names, or places to form a complete news item.
A poultry guidance note stresses ensuring broad ventilation in the house. It warns pure air costs nothing yet remains essential to profitable poultry raising.
The text argues that crossing breeds yields only the lighter weight variety and rarely provides any gain, warning that crossbreeding plans are typically unproductive.
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